Calls for Paul Dacre’s peerage to be delayed
“I don’t think that man should be allowed anywhere near the House of Lords. He has already poisoned the well of British politics quite enough.”
Basit Mahmood
GB News loses half its value after Discovery sells up
It hasn’t gone quite as planned for the channel which promised to be ‘boldly different’.
Tory minister pushes to downgrade importance of climate change in trade deals
Conor Burns said he had been fighting back in his first two weeks at the Department for International Trade against plans ‘to push net-zero and the environment to the top of every single trade agreement as a sort of policy objective’.
Latest polling shows Tories would be left with just 85 seats
Labour would have a majority of 292 seats
Daily Mail publisher being sued over alleged phone-tapping, breaches of privacy and accessing bank accounts
Law firm Hamlins claimed the alleged crimes “represent the tip of the iceberg – and that many other innocent people remain unknowing victims of similar terrible and reprehensible covert acts”.
Left Foot Forward is hiring a trade union reporter
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Petition demanding an early general election hits more than 500,000 signatures
The petition, which calls for an ‘immediate general election to end the chaos of the current government’ has, as of today, received 557,976 signatures.
Nadine Dorries fears Liz Truss is becoming too right wing
You know things are bad when even Dorries is telling her leader to stop “lurching to the right”.
Radical Roundup: 10 stories that have got buried – Week 1, October 2022
The news you didn’t see this week…
More than 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, study finds
‘Mortality rates across the UK stopped improving in the early 2010s, largely attributable to UK Government’s ‘austerity’ policies.’